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(Eagle News) — The partial and unofficial results on the just concluded May 13 national and local elections showed two lady sentors, Senator Cynthia Villar and Senator Grace Poe, leading the senatorial race, while no one from the Liberal Party’s “Otso Diretso” senatorial bets managed to get in the top 12. This partial and unofficial results from the Comelec were as of 6:15 p.m., Monday, May 13. Villar got 93,660 votes while Poe got 83,258 […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has a piece of advice for his children: “The earlier they go out of politics, the better.” The President made the remark when told his children with Elizabeth Zimmerman were poised to win the midterm elections, as they are running virtually unopposed: Sara Duterte is running for reelection as mayor of Davao and Paolo Duterte as 1st district Davao City congressman. Sebastian Duterte is the lone candidate seeking the post of […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, May 13, acknowledged the midterm elections could be seen as a referendum on his administration. “Could be taken as one referendum, so that if you agree with me, then you can vote for my candidates or the people I’m supporting these elections. If I am repudiated by the loss of all candidates coming from the Hugpong (ng Pagbabago) slate, that could indicate majority of people ayaw nila ako, madali […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte does not see the need to order an investigation into reports of malfunctioning vote-counting machines. In an interview with reporters after casting his vote in his polling center in Davao on Monday, May 13, Duterte said the Commission on Elections should instead “explain first to the people.” He said this was in recognition of the independence of the Comelec. There were reports of VCMs not working properly in Metro Manila. Senator […]
(Eagle News)–Former Vice President Jejomar Binay and another voter were given replacement ballots after an electoral board ruled it was not their fault their first ballots became dirty. The Commission on Elections had said this was the reason why their first ballots were rejected by the VCM in the first place. “Dito sa case ni former VP Binay, ‘yung balota niya nalaglag dahil dinumog ng tao ‘yung electoral board nung ayaw tanggapin ng machine so […]
(Eagle News) – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) sees no reason to extend voting hours for the May 13 midterm elections despite reports of polling precincts which opened late, or delays in the voting due to defective vote counting machines. “Extension is not necessary because the voting hours by design is already flexible,” according to Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez. Jimenez explained that voters who are within the vicinity of the polling precincts would still […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte cast his vote at his precinct in Davao on Monday, May 13. The President, who was accompanied by Honeylet Avanceña, arrived at the Daniel R. Aguinaldo National High School past 4 p.m. He filled out his ballot at Precinct 1245A, Cluster Number 361, and inserted the same into the vote-counting machine. The VCM readily accepted the President’s ballot. Duterte has endorsed several candidates for the elections, including his longtime aide Bong […]
(Eagle News)—Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol’s voting in Kidapawan was delayed on Monday, May 13, after the vote-counting machine refused to accept his ballot. In a Facebook post, Piñol said after an hour of waiting following the rejection, he asked the 3-member electoral board in his polling precinct in Paco to examine what went wrong. He said after a “thorough inspection,” the chairperson noticed that there was a “ballpen marking on the edge of the ballot.” […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — The death toll from a major cyclone that hit eastern India and Bangladesh in early May rose to 77 on Monday as anger grew over millions of people still without power and water. Cyclone Fani, the first summer cyclone to hit India’s Bay of Bengal coast in 43 years, made landfall in Odisha state on May 3 packing winds up to 200 kilometers (125 miles) per hour. The winds damaged […]
(Eagle News) — The Commission on Elections said that around 400 to 600 vote counting machines had problems out of the around 85,000 machines being used for the May 13, 2019 midterm elections. In a press briefing, Comelec said that the ballot machines which were defective had to be replaced. “We understand that the perception is that there are a lot of VCMs that have malfunctioned. Right now, I can tell you that the […]
(Eagle News)—-Quezon City representative and mayoral candidate Vicente Crisologo has been released pending further investigation. Crisologo was ordered released by the Quezon City Prosecutors Office a day after he was nabbed for allegedly trying to stop the arrest of his supporters who were supposed to be engaged in vote-buying in Barangay Bahay Toro. Apart from Crisologo, his son Edrix and over 40 others were arrested. The younger Crisologo had said in a television interview that […]
(Eagle News)—The Philippine National Police has ruled the blasts in Maguindanao and Cotabato were not election-related. In a press conference, PNP Chief Oscar Albayalde said those behind the blasts in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao around 1 a.m. and in Cotabato City at 7:10 a.m. merely wanted to “make themselves known.” He noted the blasts followed another incident at a vacant lot in the Cotabato City Hall compound around 10 p.m. on Sunday. “They are not […]
